3 Things To Consider When Retrofitting Your Home With Radiant Flooring

Keeping your home warm is important when it comes to ensuring the safety and security of your family. Many homeowners are making the choice to install flooring that features radiant heating in order to reduce energy costs and create a more uniform temperature throughout their home. Retrofitting your existing home with radiant flooring can present some unique challenges.

Here are three things that you need to consider in order to ensure that your new radiant floors work effectively in the future.

1. Make sure that you install your radiant heating system above the subfloor.

The heating system that allows radiant flooring to create a comfortable temperature within your home can be installed underneath your home's subfloor or above the subfloor. When you are retrofitting an existing floor to allow for radiant heating, it can be beneficial to install the heating system above the subfloor.

This helps to reduce the amount of materials that must be removed in order to accommodate the radiant flooring. Opting for installation above the subfloor also ensures that your new radiant heating system will heat the floor directly, not waste valuable energy heating the subfloor as well.

2. Take changes in floor height into consideration when installing radiant flooring.

When you make the choice to add radiant flooring to your existing home, you need to be mindful of the potential impact the new radiant flooring could have on the height of your existing floors. The radiant heating system that allows for the transfer of heat through your home's flooring could raise the level of your home's floors.

A higher floor could impact the way your appliances connect to plumbing and electrical outlets, and it could also make it difficult to open and close doors properly. Be sure that you take any potential floor height changes into consideration, and plan to include adjustments to your appliance connections and doorways in the budget for your radiant flooring retrofit.

As you retrofit your home with radiant flooring, you may find that you need to invest in new flooring materials.

Radiant heating doesn't work as well with wood or carpet flooring as it does with ceramic tiles or vinyl flooring products. so you may find that you need to swap out wood and carpet for ceramic tiles or vinyl in order to ensure your retrofit performs properly in the future.

Making the choice to retrofit your home with radiant flooring means that you will need to exercise caution during the installation process. Be sure to install the heating system above your subfloor, make accommodations for changes in floor height, and invest in radiant-friendly flooring materials to increase the efficiency of your home's new heating system in the future.

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